In a world of musical stereotypes - Heavy Metal bands like AC/DC , Motorhead and Metallica tend to take on the mantle of the angry, alienated and rebellious outcast. It's a world made up of mostly young males pumping their fists to woofer shattering bass drum beats and sizzling lead guitar solos.

So - when one of Metal's most famous drummers - drops the 'drum sticks' to pick up a brush to paint on canvas - you have to be just a little curious !

Today, in our Toronto studio is Robb Reiner - the drummer of the Canadian iconic metal band, Anvil. Next Thursday - Sept 25th Reiner will present his first 'street-level' gallery exhibition - at Montreal's BBAM Gallery.

The Canada Council for the Arts has announced the 2014 shortlist for the Governor General's Literary Awards.

Claire Holden Rothman, is one of the Fiction finalists and she will be appearing at the Paragraphe Books and Breakfast on Sunday, Oct. 19 at 10 am at Le Centre Sheraton (1201 Blvd. Rene-Levesque West) in Montreal.

Her new novel,My October, is a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Awards and was also long listed for the Giller Prize in 2014.

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Cinq à Six in the Summer: Interview with Richard Lafrance: The Montreal International Reggae Festival tag:www.cbc.ca,2014:/cinqasix//567.3765032014-08-04T17:34:03Z2014-07-16T20:15:03ZFrank Opolkohttp://www.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/MT4/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=567&id=2115

This week we are taking you to Jamaica ! Well not exactly...

Reggae aficianado and publicist Richard Lafrance drops by to present his Top Ten Picks of artists appearing at this year's International Reggae Festival.

The Montreal International Reggae Festival - offers three days of "Reggae Rocking" on the Quays of The Old Port. With an aim to not only showcase the pulsating Reggae beat of internationally renown musicians, but also to highlight excellence amongst a diverse set of 'Reggae Ambassadors' from all corners of the world including Canadian based musicians. Consistently embracing the theme, "United Against Violence" the Montreal International Reggae Festival has become a significant tradition for Reggae music lovers in and outside of Canada.

The host of Cinq-a-Six is Jeanette Kelly.

Frank Opolko is the producer.

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Cinq à Six in the Summer: Live Performance from Hannah Georgastag:www.cbc.ca,2014:/cinqasix//567.3764922014-07-28T17:18:27Z2014-07-16T19:06:21ZFrank Opolkohttp://www.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/MT4/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=567&id=2115

On the show this week, we'll take you to the west coast for an intimate and spontaneous hour of music featuring Hannah Georgas and Ryan Guldemond. They are friends and frequent collaborators.

Our show features songs from their most recent project.

Since 2012, Georgas has toured internationally as part of Kathleen Edwards' supporting band, and her second, self-titled album was released on 2 October 2012 which was long listed for the 2013 Polaris Music Prize. The album won Pop Recording of the Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards in 2013.

She was nominated for Songwriter of the Year and Alternative Album of the Year at the 2013 Juno Awards, and played her single "Robotic" at the awards ceremony.

Today on our show Dan Glick programmer for one of the world's great festivals.

We find out his Top Ten Picks and how Osheaga + Heavy Mtl pick the acts.

A Variety of musical acts and styles from Lorde to Twisted Sister !

Jeanette Kelly is the host.

Produced by Frank Opolko.

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Cinq à Six in the Summer: Live Performance: Blackie and The Rodeo Kingstag:www.cbc.ca,2014:/cinqasix//567.3161312014-07-14T16:13:43Z2014-07-16T19:07:25ZTanya Birkbeckhttp://www.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/MT4/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=567&id=1076Cinq a Six presents more great summer programming for you.

This week we have some great music.

A live recording of Canada's legendary Roots group Blackie and the Rodeo Kings taped in Vancouver.

Last November, CBC Music's concert program Canada Live celebrated the release of Serena Ryder's 5th album, Harmony with a recording at Toronto's Mod Club.

Since then, Ryder has had phenomenal commercial success with this record. Her rising star status was further bolstered when she won 2 Juno Awards for Artist of the Year and Songwriter of the Year.

On this week's show we present her at the Mod Club in Toronto.

The Host of Cinq-a-Six is Jeanette Kelly.

Frank Opolko is the Producer.

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David Culver: Featured Interviewtag:www.cbc.ca,2014:/cinqasix//567.3736082014-06-17T19:53:15Z2014-06-18T16:22:42ZFrank Opolkohttp://www.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/MT4/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=567&id=2115

Host Jeanette Kelly speaks to former CEO of Alcan David Culver about his contributions to Montreal's downtown architecture. Culver has just released a book called ' Expect Miracles

Recollections of a Lucky Life Written with journalist Alan Freeman.

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German magazine dedicates an issue to Bernard Streettag:www.cbc.ca,2014:/cinqasix//567.3653422014-04-15T16:33:52Z2014-04-15T16:51:08ZTanya Birkbeckhttp://www.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/MT4/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=567&id=1076Flaneur is a new German magazine.

The concept is simple: each issue explores a different city by telling the stories of one single street.

Flaneur has already dedicated an issue to streets in Berlin and Leipzig in Germany.

Now, the editors are spending two months in Montreal, where they are collecting material for an issue dedicated to Bernard Street.

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Disabled actors take to the stage in AVALetag:www.cbc.ca,2014:/cinqasix//567.3577902014-03-08T20:10:41Z2014-03-10T13:19:55Z Catherine Bourgeois is the co-founder of Joe, Jack et John Theatre. They're a professional theatre company in Montreal whose mandate is to combine actors with intellectual disabilities or autism spectrum disorder with non-disabled actors. Their new play, AVALe, opens...Tanya Birkbeckhttp://www.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/MT4/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=567&id=1076

Catherine Bourgeois is the co-founder of Joe, Jack et John Theatre. They're a professional theatre company in Montreal whose mandate is to combine actors with intellectual disabilities or autism spectrum disorder with non-disabled actors.

Their new play, AVALe, opens this week. Jeanette spoke to Catherine and Anthony Dolbec, an actor with autism spectrum disorder, about shattering prejudice around intellectual disability and how, sometimes, feeling like an outsider in the Quebec theatre scene is a good thing.

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Wapikoni Mobile: Giving First Nations youth a voice through filmtag:www.cbc.ca,2014:/cinqasix//567.3577872014-03-08T20:05:11Z2014-03-10T13:22:43ZTanya Birkbeckhttp://www.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/MT4/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=567&id=1076This year, the Quebec-based Aboriginal filmmaking project Wapikoni Mobileis celebrating its 10th anniversary. Equipped with a mobile studio, filmmakers live in remote First Nations communities for a month at a time with a singular mission: to get young people inspired and motivated to tell their stories through film, music videos and animation.

Thanks to Wapikoni, over 600 films have now been made--telling stories that otherwise would never be told.

Jeanette spoke to Wapikoni's founder, Manon Barbeau, to get her insight on the trials and tribulations of giving First Nations kids a voice. Then, filmmaking mentor Alexandra Guité and 23-year-old Mi'kmaq filmmaker Raymond Caplin joined her in studio to discuss the life-changing effect the Wapikoni Mobile project has had on their lives.

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The Aeneid: Exploring the refugee experience... with puppetstag:www.cbc.ca,2014:/cinqasix//567.3577792014-03-08T20:00:13Z2014-03-10T13:18:26Z This week's show is all about outsider storytelling, and how the sense that you don't belong to the mainstream can make for some powerful artistic statements. Montreal's Talisman Theatre is exploring the notion of the outsider through a classic...Tanya Birkbeckhttp://www.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/MT4/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=567&id=1076

This week's show is all about outsider storytelling, and how the sense that you don't belong to the mainstream can make for some powerful artistic statements. Montreal's Talisman Theatreis exploring the notion of the outsider through a classic story: The Aeneid.

But it's diverging from the Virgil epic in a number of ways--it's set in the present day. The cast is made up of immigrants to Quebec. It reworks the tale into a story of immigration and refugee experience.

And it does so with puppets.

Marcelo Arroyo and Deena Aziz are two of the actors/puppeteers in the performance. They sat down with Jeanette to discuss why this production is so relevant in Quebec right now.

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The quest for the Montreal English accenttag:www.cbc.ca,2014:/cinqasix//567.3597292014-02-22T17:57:40Z2014-03-18T17:00:28Z If you're an English-speaking Montrealer, your accent can reveal a lot about who you are and where you come from. That's according to McGill sociolinguistic Charles Boberg. He's made a study of the distinctive ways English is spoken by...Amanda Klanghttp://www.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/MT4/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=567&id=2103

If you're an English-speaking Montrealer, your accent can reveal a lot about who you are and where you come from.

That's according to McGill sociolinguistic Charles Boberg. He's made a study of the distinctive ways English is spoken by people from the three largest groups in the Montreal Anglophone community: Italian, Jewish and British Montrealers.

Jeanette speaks to Charles Boberg. Along with Anne Douglas, a Montrealer of British extraction, and Italian-Montrealer Fabrizio Sciola, the creator of the St. Leonard Dictionary Website.

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The Futuretag:www.cbc.ca,2014:/cinqasix//567.3553852014-02-19T20:37:27Z2014-02-19T22:19:04ZThis week on on Cinq à Six we think about the future of traditional art forms.We speak to the people behind the MSO's multi-dimensional installation at the futuristic SATosphere dome at the Société des Arts Technologiques, and get Maestro Kent...Tanya Birkbeckhttp://www.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/MT4/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=567&id=1076

This week on on Cinq à Six we think about the future of traditional art forms.

We speak to the people behind the MSO's multi-dimensional installation at the futuristic SATosphere dome at the Société des Arts Technologiques, and get Maestro Kent Nagano's feelings about mixing his symphonic music with video art.

Writers, bloggers, publishers and booksellers have spent part of the week in a blue-sky contemplation of one of our most defining cultural forms: literature. Panelists Katia Grubisic, the Canada Council`s Arash Mohtashami-Maali and Christopher diRaddo bring some of the discussion to our studio.

And we take you behind the scenes of the world premiere of the play Unseamly, which rips apart the seams of the retail fashion industry and examines the complex sexual dynamics behind fashion marketing.